The wedding cake will be the
centre of attention at your wedding reception...it is traditional for
guests to stay at least until the cake has been cut.

Your wedding cake will
feature in a lots of wedding photographs, you should take some time to
choose the perfect wedding cake. Traditionally, wedding cakes used to be
three tiered, and were covered with royal icing. Nowadays, there are
hundreds of cakes that you can choose from with more contemporary
designs being increasingly popular. You can even get a wedding cake
customized to your own unique design and have just about any design
under the sun.

When you are ready to start
looking for the perfect wedding cake, consider the following factors:

1) Size of the Cake:
The size of the wedding cake will depend on the number of guests that
you are expecting. If you are planning to save some cake for guests who
could not accept your invitation and will be unable to attend, and are
also planning to send your wedding cake to out-of-town invitees, then
you should keep this in mind while determining the exact number of
people.

2) Design: Go through
the cake sample pictures from different confectioners and bakers.

Browse the supplier websites
listed here and if you do not find something that you like, you can
always design your own wedding cake.

3) Flavour: While it
is important that a wedding cake appeal to the visual senses, it is even
more important that it taste good. Choose from the regular vanilla or
chocolate, fruit cake or sponge cake, cheesecakes, and even wedding
cakes with a mousse filling...maybe even have different tiers in
different flavours.

4)
Cost: A 'standard sized' wedding cake can vary in price from a
couple of hundred pounds up to several thousand.

Most wedding cake suppliers
require you to place your order at least a couple of months in advance